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Cyanide & Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

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History

@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 76 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If you eat basically any form of meat, I have some bad news for you...

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

I do give deer hunting a pass because they're overpopulated in places (because humans wiped out their native predators).

Feel free to try and change my mind so I can wipe that off my ever-shrinking personal "ethically ok to eat meats" list. For all I know this is one of those lies I was raised with that I've not examined since childhood. Edit: context is in Kentucky, USA 20 years ago. I don't know about deer populations elsewhere and elsewhen.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Former vegan, current pescatarian here.

Dont stop hunting, please. Humans did a phenomenal job of ensuring a required hunting season for deer by wiping out all the natural predators, now without them we have to have culls. If you participate in said culls, PLEASE eat the meat, use the pelt, give the antlers to your dog. We've forced ourselves into a position where some of us MUST take up the mantle of predator. If you choose to, just be responsible with the carcass so it didn't die for no good reason.

Edit: accidentally lied, I'm not a vegetarian I'm a pescatarian who outside of her 6 shrimp a week is vegan.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

To add a wrinkle: there's now "farmed deer". It's supposedly more environmentally friendly than farmed cow, but I don't like it because •vague feelings I've not fully examined•.

So don't assume any venison you find in the grocery store was hunted.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, thanks, I hate it!

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vague feelings? I think your feelings are pretty spot-on, farming an animal whose population is already excessive in the wild is bizarre.

Wild deer are more environmentally friendly than farmed deer.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

The feelings are vague because I can't put them confidently into words, but your explanation resonates.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Farmed cervids are why CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) is a thing. It's a prion disease. Farmed venison has a high probability of being CWD positive.

It's called a high fence operation. Rich fucks actually pay for a canned hunt inside the fence so they get a big antlered wall hanger.

Myself and my family like to eat does. Curbs population faster and tends to be better meat. We live in a county that is overpopulated with white tail.

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[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

sorry but former vegan? what happened?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Stopped eating a vegan diet I would imagine

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

yea I figured thanks for the insight lol

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Only time I've eaten meat in the past ~30 years was when I ate some invasive fish that had been caught in a killathon to restore native habitat. Not that it's my role to "give you a pass," but I certainly do in this case!

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently there's spear fisherfolk in Florida that kill invasive lionfish and provide them to local restaurants. I'm all for killing and eating invasive species.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's exactly what I ate :)

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Or drink milk. Vegetarians don't get a pass.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

I only drink polar bear milk. I find the chalky cod liver oil taste delightful.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago

There's whale meat in my steak!?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 47 points 2 weeks ago

I mean yes, but what do you think happens to regular fish

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whales are the farmers of the sea. They fertilize the open oceans and produce more food than they eat. Especially the biggest ones, like the fin whales Japan has decided to hunt again. So if you like sea food, maybe don't kill the whales.

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[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 33 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

This is not an isolated issue. This is how we treat animals and other humans (regarding the harpooning, we only do it figuratively to other humans, not literally).

Go vegan.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

We do it literally to other humans, look Gaza or South Sudan

[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're right. Probably should be mostly figuratively to humans, but also literally. And we also do it figuratively to the whales by destroying and polluting the ocean ecosystems.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

People's morality about slaughtering meat is going to flip so hard once we get affordable lab grown meat, future generations will think of us as utter savages. But until then I don't think it's going to happen at scale

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Crazy that some seem to suggest you can't care about whales heading towards extinction without being a level 6 Vegan.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. I’m very opposed to whaling - they’re magnificent creatures - but I’m not giving up my hamburger any time soon.

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Tried making a joke here before reading more about it and now I regret the joke so I edited this out.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The human experience is built on cruelty.

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[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

Well usually it's more injure the child so mom stays close then murder both.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's okay, it's for scientific research !

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know it's not, it's just the garbage excuse they've been using for decades

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Used to be there, now I just keep sharing the above link 🤷‍♂️

This is why "/s" exists

[–] RuBisCO@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago
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